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obama said they want an end to the high jinks. host: what is your take on president obama's role in negotiating so far? guest: i think he has a strong impulse to reach a deal. his priorities to reaching a deal is surpassing his desire to stand up for progressive principles. to protect parts of the government from harmful cuts that would hurt a lot of regular americans. host: republicans saw his news conference as unusual. john mccain said he should not know if he should be mad or sad. guest: the white house anticipated a lot of progress of deal. over this they knew there would be concessions. he was trying to fire up the team, slam-dunking on republicans to make it seem like a partisan fight. i think that probably worked. john mccain complained. a lot democratic rally to the cause. host: joe biden made his way to the senate last night. do you know? guest: he played a lot of concerns about the debt ceiling -- he allayed a lot of concerns about the debt ceiling. if republicans would refuse to raise the debt ceiling and if obama thro
obama said they want an end to the high jinks. host: what is your take on president obama's role in negotiating so far? guest: i think he has a strong impulse to reach a deal. his priorities to reaching a deal is surpassing his desire to stand up for progressive principles. to protect parts of the government from harmful cuts that would hurt a lot of regular americans. host: republicans saw his news conference as unusual. john mccain said he should not know if he should be mad or sad. guest:...
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obama said they want an end to the high jinks. host: what is your take on president obama's role in negotiating so far? guest: i think he has a strong impulse to reach a deal. his priorities to reaching a deal is surpassing his desire to stand up for progressive principles. to protect parts of the government from harmful cuts that would hurt a lot of regular americans. host: republicans saw his news conference as unusual. john mccain said he should not know if he should be mad or sad. guest: the white house anticipated a lot of progress angst over this deal. they knew there would be concessions. he was trying to fire up the team, slam-dunking on republicans to make it seem like a partisan fight. i think that probably worked. john mccain complained. a lot democratic rally to the cause. host: joe biden made his way to the senate last night. do you know? guest: he allayed a lot of concerns about the debt ceiling. if republicans would refuse to raise the debt ceiling and if obama throws down the gauntlet, i'm not sure we would not hit
obama said they want an end to the high jinks. host: what is your take on president obama's role in negotiating so far? guest: i think he has a strong impulse to reach a deal. his priorities to reaching a deal is surpassing his desire to stand up for progressive principles. to protect parts of the government from harmful cuts that would hurt a lot of regular americans. host: republicans saw his news conference as unusual. john mccain said he should not know if he should be mad or sad. guest:...
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i want you to listen to what president obama said earlier today and get your comment on it. let's listen to this. >> we're going to solve this problem instead in several steps. >> speaker gingrich, do you think this is the way to do it? we're at an impasse. are we going to do that? >> we're going to solve it in several steps. why aren't people trying to solve it a few hours before midnight on new year's eve? everybody knows you can retroactively -- the president could instruct the treasury tomorrow morning to hold all withholding rates at the current amount on the presumption that they have reroactively to january 1st fixed the taxes by march 1st. it's not a good way to do it. they had 13 months on a bipartisan basis, they failed. 13 months. everybody needs to remember this. for 13 months, they could have solved this. i warned literally in 2011, we would come down to the last possible minute of the last possible day to be told there's this terrible bill that nobody understands, nobody has read, but if you don't vote for it, terrible things will happen. i think republicans at
i want you to listen to what president obama said earlier today and get your comment on it. let's listen to this. >> we're going to solve this problem instead in several steps. >> speaker gingrich, do you think this is the way to do it? we're at an impasse. are we going to do that? >> we're going to solve it in several steps. why aren't people trying to solve it a few hours before midnight on new year's eve? everybody knows you can retroactively -- the president could instruct...
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an op-ed this morning in "the washington post" entitled obama's failed leadership. "the main reason we keep having these destructive and inconcludive budget confrontations is not simple that will many republicans have been intrancei gent on taxes, the larger cause is that obama refuses to concede that social security, medicare, medicaid are driving future spending and deficits. so when republicans make concessions on taxes they get little in return." are you set up for more confrontatio confrontation. >> i think we are set up for more confrontatioconfrontation. on september 30th, when the clock strikes, we'll be in the same position. the president has made concessions, put on the table reforms to the entitlement program. last year, we were close to a grand bargain. $4 trillion deficit reduction that would include major entitlement reforms. the president has done what he needs to do that's unfair criticism. >> what is lacking, congressman? what is the problem? it is a popular con serb tuf and -- conservative reefrain. where is the impasse in terms of being able to sa
an op-ed this morning in "the washington post" entitled obama's failed leadership. "the main reason we keep having these destructive and inconcludive budget confrontations is not simple that will many republicans have been intrancei gent on taxes, the larger cause is that obama refuses to concede that social security, medicare, medicaid are driving future spending and deficits. so when republicans make concessions on taxes they get little in return." are you set up for more...
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gerri: just astonishing to how many ways you can mess this up and yet, and yet, president obama says i've been working very hard at stopping fraut. here's the president. >> we went after medical fraud in medicare and medicaid, very aggressively, more aggressively than ever before. and have saved 10 of billions of dollars. $50 billion of waste taken out of the civil. gerri: has the white house done a good job on this. >> they haven't unfortunately. i don't know the president even knows what is happening at cms. the $50 billion number, i don't know where he gets that number from. gerri: you have never seen that number? >> no. the government accounting office has said that they only stopped $7,000 in overpayments. $7,000 in overpayments after spending 10 of millions of dollars to implement this incorrectly. where i live here in south florida, we unfortunately are the health care care fraud capital of the country. we have prosecutors doing a good job, locking these people up who have stolen millions, sometimes 10 of millions of dollars. but we don't get the money back the only way we'll
gerri: just astonishing to how many ways you can mess this up and yet, and yet, president obama says i've been working very hard at stopping fraut. here's the president. >> we went after medical fraud in medicare and medicaid, very aggressively, more aggressively than ever before. and have saved 10 of billions of dollars. $50 billion of waste taken out of the civil. gerri: has the white house done a good job on this. >> they haven't unfortunately. i don't know the president even...
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president obama's 2010 trip to india. others on the right were up in arms over rue nors about what the trip would cost. >> i think we know that just within a day or so, the president of the united states will be taking a trip over to india that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day. we have never seen a trip at this level before at this level of excess. and i think it's not a good signal to send to the american people when the american people are, quite frankly, struggling right now with high job losses. >> $200 million a day would have surpassed the daily cost of the war in afghanistan at the time. it was started by an unnamed source on an indian news web site. we can't talk about conspiracy theories without bringing up rush limbaugh. this past august was cancelled due to hurricane isaac. >> you've got a hurricane coming. the national hurricane center, which is a government agency, very hopeful that the hurricane gets near tampa. the national hurricane center is obama. it's a national weather service, part
president obama's 2010 trip to india. others on the right were up in arms over rue nors about what the trip would cost. >> i think we know that just within a day or so, the president of the united states will be taking a trip over to india that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day. we have never seen a trip at this level before at this level of excess. and i think it's not a good signal to send to the american people when the american people are, quite frankly, struggling...
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president obama has said, they have said here at the white house, at least, you know, he's not going to have that kind of fight again, which suggests he's willing to go over the debt limit and let the country default next time. >> he says that he's not playing that game anymore. let me bring ali into the conversation. the president said i'm not going down that road. we're not going to let the debt ceiling be a major political fight. the country can't stand it. the last time we went through that fight, our credit rating was diminished as all of our viewers recall. not only here but around the world. he says he's not going to do it. at some point, they have to raise the dbt ceiling, otherwise, there will be a technical default. >> a technical default. there's nobody in the world other than rand paul, who thinks we're not going to be able to pay our bills. the united states always has the ability to pay its bills. whether you agree with it or not, we have printing presses. the money may be worth less over time, but the fact is we can keep printing money. there's no danger that the bills
president obama has said, they have said here at the white house, at least, you know, he's not going to have that kind of fight again, which suggests he's willing to go over the debt limit and let the country default next time. >> he says that he's not playing that game anymore. let me bring ali into the conversation. the president said i'm not going down that road. we're not going to let the debt ceiling be a major political fight. the country can't stand it. the last time we went...
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many democrats didn't love all the details, but they're going to -- president obama has signed on to the deal, so that's going to push a lot of democrats over the line and they'll get enough votes today to get this passed. >> all right, let's say this gets done today, lynn. vice president biden reportedly told democrats, and we saw him going on the hill, i don't know what time, 10:00, 11:00 last night, that the real work is yet to come in march, when the sequester cuts will come up again, and of course, the debt ceiling battle. how does what happened last night either pave the way for or impede the way to what happens in the spring? >> well, it sets it up. it's a kick of the can down the road. and one of the trade-offs that biden made was giving the restoring to republicans some of the leverage they lost right now. everyone knows that the big pressure to get the senate to act was that everyone's taxes was going to rise at midnight. now it's some people's, the wealthiest taxes. that was leverage. democrats won't have it again in a few weeks. that's another reason why some democrats th
many democrats didn't love all the details, but they're going to -- president obama has signed on to the deal, so that's going to push a lot of democrats over the line and they'll get enough votes today to get this passed. >> all right, let's say this gets done today, lynn. vice president biden reportedly told democrats, and we saw him going on the hill, i don't know what time, 10:00, 11:00 last night, that the real work is yet to come in march, when the sequester cuts will come up again,...
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scathing report by an independent state department accountability review board that we have covered many times. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the latest senate report sites the white house for president obama inconsistent statements whether the benghazi assault was terrorist attack given intelligence showed within hours that al qaeda affiliate was responsible on september 11th. as evidenced reported sites mr. obama's interview with 60 minutes. it's too early to know exactly how this came about. group involved but obviously it was an attack on mrns the committee's ranking members says the statements are part of a broader troubling pattern. >> the administration repeatedly has rerefused to name the threat that we face. >> senators joe lieberman and susan collins write that senate investigators are being denied a detailed time line on the cia talking points. specifically, how the talking points were massaged with terms like al qaeda dropped. the report says the administration has spent weeks debating internally whether or not it should turn over information conside
scathing report by an independent state department accountability review board that we have covered many times. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the latest senate report sites the white house for president obama inconsistent statements whether the benghazi assault was terrorist attack given intelligence showed within hours that al qaeda affiliate was responsible on september 11th. as evidenced reported sites mr. obama's interview with 60 minutes. it's too early to know...
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democrats are united in the house and they vote for the senate version which won't -- assuming how many republicans do you actually need to get to that 217? it's now 217 because there's an absent seat instead of 218. how many more republicans would you need? >> probably not that many. >> what we're hearing is you have between 20 and 50 republicans on board and that would be enough. >> that would be enough? >> if i'm a house democrat, why would i do that? okay, you could say for the good of the country at economy. >> you care about the country. >> but at a certain point, i think this is a situation where -- >> you're doing it to prevent hundreds and millions of americans from paying more in taxes. >> but they aren't going to pay more in tacks if we p spend a week fighting this out. and if he democrats are right about the political calculus, the democratic party has an incentive to fight this out for a week and the long-term benefit for their party and theoretically for the party might be greater. sometimes you need to let these fights play out, right? >> that may happen depending on what
democrats are united in the house and they vote for the senate version which won't -- assuming how many republicans do you actually need to get to that 217? it's now 217 because there's an absent seat instead of 218. how many more republicans would you need? >> probably not that many. >> what we're hearing is you have between 20 and 50 republicans on board and that would be enough. >> that would be enough? >> if i'm a house democrat, why would i do that? okay, you could...
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so this has come together just at the very last moment, as president obama predicted. everything takes until the very last minute in this town. and this did not fail. there are many hurdles left to overcome, and i reported earlier that among those hurdles are criticisms from progressive organizations, organizations allied with the democratic basis that says that democrats are giving up their leverage by doing this and they should wait to go over the fiscal cliff. we'll see if there are aggressive objectives by members of the democratic caucus. but as dana has been reporting throughout the day, it was senate democrats who held out for hours tonight to get what they wanted in this deal. so in the end, they negotiated away from what some of the republicans wanted. democrats got more of what they want, it sounds like. we'll see how it goes when vice president biden, a real veteran of the senate, heads up there to sell it to them any minute now, wolf. >> let's see what happens. we'll see if some point later tonight, who knows, the president might show up in the briefing roo
so this has come together just at the very last moment, as president obama predicted. everything takes until the very last minute in this town. and this did not fail. there are many hurdles left to overcome, and i reported earlier that among those hurdles are criticisms from progressive organizations, organizations allied with the democratic basis that says that democrats are giving up their leverage by doing this and they should wait to go over the fiscal cliff. we'll see if there are...
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this is going to be life-changing for so many people. that's huge. the other person to watch i think is michelle obama coming out of the campaign, you know, it's well-known she doesn't particularly like to, you know, the political rough and tumble of a campaign. now she doesn't have to worry about re-election. this is her year to shine. >> she's free. >> she's freed up a little and i'm excited to do what she'll do with the newfound freedom. >> we always talk about second terms for presidents but for the first spouses they're not running for anything unless you're hillary clinton. >> modern first spouse. things are different over the past two or three presidencys from the historical perspective of a first lady. she's swomeone who has a chance to make a difference. >> she's clear she's not a political candidate like hillary clinton thought she might be but not going to be quiet like laura bush was. she has a lot to offer and talk about. >> she's also very young, you know, she still has a lot to do and next chapters in her life. >> as are you, anna nava
this is going to be life-changing for so many people. that's huge. the other person to watch i think is michelle obama coming out of the campaign, you know, it's well-known she doesn't particularly like to, you know, the political rough and tumble of a campaign. now she doesn't have to worry about re-election. this is her year to shine. >> she's free. >> she's freed up a little and i'm excited to do what she'll do with the newfound freedom. >> we always talk about second terms...
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here is exemption for those defined as religious many employers in the mandate but there are 40 cases pending by employers saying that is what they are and the obama administration is refusing to recognize that. hobby lobby is believed to be the largest employer challenging that mandate. days ago it was denied an emergency injunction against the mandate by supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. founder david green said quote we can't abandon our religious beliefs to comply with the mandate. the company is potentially facing fines of $1.3 million a day, starting a today. rick. rick: shannon bream live for us in d.c. shannon thank you. heather: new information on the condition of secretary of state hillary clinton who is hospitalized in new york. that is where doctors are using blood thinners to treat a blood clot found near her brain. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joining us live from washington. so what does this mean for her testimony on the benghazi terrorist attack? >> reporter: well this new senate report follows white house, specifically president obama for
here is exemption for those defined as religious many employers in the mandate but there are 40 cases pending by employers saying that is what they are and the obama administration is refusing to recognize that. hobby lobby is believed to be the largest employer challenging that mandate. days ago it was denied an emergency injunction against the mandate by supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. founder david green said quote we can't abandon our religious beliefs to comply with the mandate. the...